• @jadero@mander.xyz
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      12 years ago

      New word! Thanks.

      I made a half-assed guess as to its meaning based on the fact that I’ve heard of an elite basketball player by that name. I got pretty close, according to urban dictionary.

    • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      I’m going to pass on that. The whole thing is a bit too silly for my taste.

      • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        72 years ago

        Each to their own, but I may remind you that whenever your generation was growing up it’s incredibly likely that you were using words your parents didn’t use.

        I can see you’ve already been informed how language evolves, and if you can’t accept that then I don’t know what to say. I guess I could ask why you ain’t talking all Shakespearean?

        • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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          -42 years ago

          Lighten up, kid. Just because I chose not to partake in some flavor-of-the-week slang, doesn’t mean I’m unwilling to keep up with change.

          I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb.

          And if it’s Shakespearean that you’re after….

          Verily I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.

          • @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            92 years ago

            That’s just old legalese. If you want Shakespearean you at least have to make it look like iambic pentameter.

          • @Nelots@lemm.ee
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            42 years ago

            flavor-of-the-week slang

            Yeet has actually been around for multiple years now. People have been saying it since at least 2018, probably longer.

          • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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            62 years ago

            Hence me writing each to their own. I would have thought that conveyed that I support you right to have an opinion.

            kid

            To a 40 year old. Gee thanks buddy for the condescending tone.

            lighten up

            And goes on to say

            I’m allowed to have an opinion that it’s fucking dumb…

            Have a wonderful day. I was merely trying to point out that language changes. I tried that in a civil manner, perhaps that didn’t come across.